It came from outer space. Last night, @NOAA’s #GOESEast (#GOES19) 🛰️ captured a meteor ☄️ so bright that it registered as a lightning bolt! New Yorkers were awoken by a loud boom as the meteor broke up in our planet’s atmosphere.
A highly rare and spectacular natural phenomenon called Red Sprites (red lightning) flashing across the night sky above a body of water and distant mountains
Unlike normal lightning that strikes down from the clouds, red sprites happen way up high in the Earth's upper atmosphere during intense thunderstorms.
Earthshine.
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.